Hindu Law and Custom (Recht und Sitte) c7.211

c7.211

Saṁvarta² has 227 Ślokas, 16 of which I find cited in the Mit., and by Hemādri. On the other hand, the texts about jurisdiction and secular law ascribed to this author in numerous works on law are not found in it. Another suspicious point is that he (35, 61) mentions and recommends only the brāhma vivāha of the various forms of marriage. Regarding the Karmapradīpa of Kātyāyana or Gobhila (also called Chandogapariśiṣṭa, see Eggling's Cat. pp. 595, 524) which has been much talked of³ and in part has been even edited in Germany, I wish to say only this that this work documents its connection which the Sāmaveda by four times referring to the doctrines of Gautama whose relation with this Veda has been discussed in § 3¹. Moreover, although a certain amount of antiquity is warranted to it by the commentary of Āśārka and by the quotations—for example, in the Mādh. and by Hemādri who quotes it as "Kāty.", Śloka-Kāty. (as in Hem. 3, 1, 1549=Kāty. 1, 18; 2, 1) or as Karma-pradīpa—it can yet be reckoned only among the latest spurs of this species of literature because it quotes the Gṛhyasaṃgraha and Vasiṣṭha's Śrāddhakalpa ². It has nothing to do with the Smṛti of Kātyāyana (§9) which is very important for law proper.